THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. • 97 



NEW PHILIPPINE MOSQUITOES. 



BY C. S. LUDLOW, PH. D. 

 Laboratory of the Office of the Surgeon-General, U. S. Army, Washington, D. C. 



Among the collection received from the Philippines in the latter part 

 of December, 1908, were several specimens belonging to Theobald's 

 Oculiomyia, a peculiar and interesting genus, the small heads and large 

 contiguous eyes suggesting some members of the family Acroceridce. The 

 specimens sent are of a new species. 



Oculiomyia Fulleri, n. sp. — ? . Head dark brown, covered with 

 dark brown curved and forked scales, with a stripe of white flat scales 

 laterad and brown flat scales ventrad, a kw brown bristles projecting 

 forward ; antennae brown, verticels and pubescence brown, the joints white, 

 unsealed, basal joint testaceous ; palpi brown, slender, about one-fourth 

 the length of the proboscis ; proboscis brown, slightly swollen toward the 

 apex ; clypeus brown ; eyes brown, large, contiguous. 



Thorax : prothoracic lobes dusky brown, practically nude ; mesonotum 

 dusky-brown, covered with brown scales and a few brown bristles ; pleura 

 testaceous, nude ; scutellum brown, mid-lobe lighter, with brown curved 

 scales • metanotum testaceous. 



Abdomen brown, covered with dark brown flat scales ; white lateral 

 spots on some segments, in some specimens only on one segment, and 

 that very indistinct, while on other specimens this spot is well and clearly 

 marked on four segments ; venter a silvery-yellow. 



Legs : coxae and trochanters light ; bases and ventral aspect of femora 

 whitish, otherwise the legs are entirely brown ; ungues small, simple and 

 equal. 



Wings : membrane clear, veins with dark brown, almost black, scales, 

 possibly partly denuded towards the base, but heavily scaled toward the 

 apex, the scales much like Tceniorhynchus wing-scales, but much narrowed 

 at their bases ; first submarginal cell longer than its stem, about the same 

 width as and longer than the second posterior cell ; cross-veins practically 

 perpendicular to the long veins ; the mid cross-vein not quite so long as 

 the posterior, and the latter distant about once and a half its own length 

 from the mid ; halteres having light stem and fuscous knob. 



Length about 6 mm., the proboscis itself being nearly 2 mm. 

 Habitat. — Parang, Mindanao, P. I. Taken Oct. 25, 1908. 

 The collections were taken by Major Fuller, Surgeon U. S. Army, 

 and were very interesting, containing besides this new species the first 

 specimens of Culiciomyia inornata, Theob., received from the Islands. 



March, 1909 



